Volba krále a tyranovražda. Návod k ustavení politické role české šlechty v Dalimilově kronice

• Authors: Eloïse Adde-Vomacka

Title variants

EN

The election of the king and tyrannicide. Instructions for establishing the political role of the Czech nobility in the Chronicle of Dalimil

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the Chronicle of the So-Called Dalimil. In contrast with the traditional perception of this source dominated by ethnic and nationalistic accents, the author here tries to reveal the ideological layers and devotes special attention to the questions of the legitimacy of the power of the king and the contracts that connected the sovereign with the „community“, i.e. with the nobility. The first part of the paper treats Dalimil’s conception of the right to resist (ius resistendi) and his justification of the uprising of the nobility against the sovereign who violates his mission and the interest of the „community“. The second part addresses the issues of tyranny and tyrannicide in the Middle Ages and treatment of this topic by the So-Called Dalimil.

Keywords

EN

nobility; tyrannicide; election of the king; the Bohemian state; politics; Dalimil; council; general good; 14th century; political philosophy

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-88

Contributors

author

Eloïse Adde-Vomacka

• Faculté des Lettres, des Sciences Humaines, des Arts et des Sciences de l’Education Université du Luxembourg, France